As Cruel As School Children
 Back to the papercuts: This is an awesome band, that we can evidently link to The Roots because of the presence of real instruments. As Cruel As School Children is a good album but I definitly liked The Papercut Chronicles much much better. The [... more]
CDN$15.99
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Denmark Vesey: The Buried Story of America's Largest ...
Within a hair's breadth of changing US history: The parallels between Denmark Vesey's failed slave insurrection in Charleston in 1822 and the start of Toussaint's successful slave insurrection in Saint Domingue (now Haiti) in 1791 are striking. In both [... more]
CDN$16.95
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The Story of French
FRENCH EXPLAINED MERCI: This is a brave book. Jean-Benoit Nadeau and his partner Julie Barlow, a young couple from Canada, have written an excellent history of the French language that is both accessable and engaging even to a reader with only a passing [... more]
CDN$22.00
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Janice VanCleave's Guide to the Best Science Fair Projects
Terrible, These are NOT the "Best" Science Fair Projects!: I picked up this book for my son in 6th grade after reading so many glorifying reviews about Van Cleave's books and the fact that she has so many books out there. Boy were we ever [... more]
CDN$21.99
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Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens
Stan Hywet: This is an outstanding book that describes a beautiful mansion and archtectural treasure in terms of the family that built it, lived in it, enjoyed it, shared it, and ultimately saved it. The photography is excellent and the story of the [... more]
CDN$40.08
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Monster Goose
From Amazon.com: Something has happened to good old Mother Goose--she's not the same kindly storyteller she once was. In fact, that isn't Mother Goose tapping away at her laptop computer at all. It's Monster Goose! With a diabolical grin beneath her [... more]
CDN$8.00
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Dream Freedom
Dream Freedom: I really liked this book and I would reccomend it to people who like realilistic fiction. This book was about how there is still slavery in Sudan, Africa. It is also about this class in America who raises enough money to buy back some of [... more]
CDN$18.95
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The Empress and the Silkworm
The Empress and the Silkworm: This is a charming tale of how a Chinese empress supposedly discovered silk thread in a cocoon, which led to the making of silk cloth for imperial dress. It also tells why the Chinese kept the process a secret for 3,000 [... more]
CDN$24.95
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The Sheikh's Unsuitable Bride
Pink taxis and snowglobe magic: a short romance with humor, fun and emotional depth: Liz Fielding's THE SHEIKH'S UNSUITABLE BRIDE is a short tender romance filled with humor and emotion that sets romance within the context of family and social [... more]
CDN$4.77
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T'was the Night Before Thanksgiving
Yeah! A thanksgiving book that doesn't involve killing: A holiday that has become focused on the full body and skeleton of a butchered bird is actually quite gruesome when one begins to look at it from the outside, especially as a vegetarian. It's nice [... more]
CDN$23.99
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Kit Learns a Lesson: A School Story, 1934
Nice story, but fails as a history lesson: I have enjoyed most of the "American Girls" books and can applaud the way they make American history come to life for girls, but I was upset by the classroom scene in "Kit Learns a Lesson" in [... more]
CDN$14.95
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Carlos, Light the Farolito
Great Book!: I have been teaching Spanish to preschoolers for the last year. When I read this book, not only did I enjoy the story, I loved the way it was written. Ms. Ciavonne uses Spanish terms throughout the book. She allows the children to figure out [... more]
CDN$6.95
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